David M Friedman

Personal account. Served as US Ambassador to Israel 2017 - 2021. Blessed to be proud husband, father and grandfather. Founder of @channel18israel

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

My second book, ONE JEWISH STATE, is available on September 3. Whether you are religious or secular, right or left, this book offers a common sense perspective that I hope will resonate. In the aftermath of October 7, all the relevant vectors — faith, national security, human rights, economics and geopolitics — all converge in favor of ONE JEWISH STATE. Find out how by reading this book.

Please pre-order now wherever you buy your books to ensure sufficient supply.

And to learn more, please visit https://t.co/jPCUqy1l94

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

Wow, that’s an original talking point. Go ahead and base your campaign on falsely vilifying a bunch of Americans who support the US-Israel relationship. Great strategy for Florida.

[James Fishback @j_fishback]

You should never vote for a candidate, I don't care if they're a Democrat or even a Republican, if they take money from AIPAC.

They are traitors to this country if they take money from AIPAC.

Their allegiance is to Israel, not to the United States of America.

[Ted S @ClearReason]

Nearly 2 million Muslims live in Israel.

Fewer than 10,000 Jews remain in the entire Arab world, down from roughly 850,000 at its peak.

Yet Israel is the country accused of apartheid.

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

The Quisling Institute is a Soros op

[Judea Pearl @yudapearl]

My late son, Daniel, is not a direct victim of 9/11, yet he was murdered by Khalid Sheik Mohammad (KSM), the 9/11 architect. I wish I could join the petition to bar Mayor Mamdani from the memorial -- his anti-American ideology differs little from that of KSM's.

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

A lying, dirtbag fraud — just look at his record to see what a train wreck moral failure he is. And, by the way, the standard of living of Israeli Christians is higher than Israeli Jews!

[James Fishback @j_fishback]

The way they treat Christians in Israel is disgraceful.

If Christians are not welcome in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in Florida.

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

Selling baseless hate to the masses will not improve their lives — never has, never will. But occasional it does get a fraudster elected. Hopefully not this time.

[DSA Watch @DSA_Watch]

Abdul El-Sayed once again suggests we can’t invest in American schools and infrastructure because of AIPAC

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

Mamdani’s presence would make a mockery of this solemn occasion.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Over 300 relatives of 9/11 victims have signed a petition urging organizers to ban Zohran Mamdani from the 25th anniversary memorial at Ground Zero.

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

Why would any candidate want her support? She is vile.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

When special interests spend this much to stop you, that says a lot about who you’re fighting for.

Vote for @AbdulElSayed by August 4th.

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

Who cares. He’s done.

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

What a load of crap being peddled by @TuckerCarlson about Israel wanting Americans to sacrifice their lives for Israel’s benefit. Three inconvenient facts Tucker:

— Israel has never asked for, and America has never sent, an American soldier to fight on Israeli soil. Indeed, Israel’s IDF motto is that they “defend themselves by themselves.”

— America did not go to war against Iran for Israel. President Trump has confirmed this countless times. Watch Senator Sheehy’s incredible speech on the Senate floor yesterday which amplifies the point that President Trump launched this battle to protect America and American interests.

— Once America decided to attack Iran, Israel, and only Israel, put its pilots in harm’s way to join the battle and provided essential intel. CENTCOM repeatedly has praised Israel’s assistance.

Spin this however you wish and however your anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Trump sponsors direct you, but these are the facts and, apart from your knuckle headed loyalists, everyone knows this.

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

Sounding the warning now for what could become a five-alarm fire for Israel.

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

While in DC this week, I had some candid conversations with senior Democratic leaders who are generally considered “pro-Israel.” They lamented that if Israel doesn’t agree to a Palestinian state, the Democratic Party, if it takes the White House, will cause America to abandon Israel.

Israel will not agree to a Palestinian state. And even if they were so inclined, this messaging from the Democrats will drive absurd maximal demands from Palestinians, who would rather see America betray Israel than achieve statehood.

This is what’s at stake in the upcoming ‘26 and ‘28 elections and beyond.

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

While in DC this week, I had some candid conversations with senior Democratic leaders who are generally considered “pro-Israel.” They lamented that if Israel doesn’t agree to a Palestinian state, the Democratic Party, if it takes the White House, will cause America to abandon Israel.

Israel will not agree to a Palestinian state. And even if they were so inclined, this messaging from the Democrats will drive absurd maximal demands from Palestinians, who would rather see America betray Israel than achieve statehood.

This is what’s at stake in the upcoming ‘26 and ‘28 elections and beyond.

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

Important read

https://t.co/YGAUwogPq5

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

Maybe a word of condemnation would be appropriate, or a warning to Muslims that this is against God’s will. Your failure to do either suggests maybe you don’t agree.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I have been briefed on today’s horrifying stabbings on the Upper West Side, where an Asian man and a Jewish man were attacked. According to witness and victim statements, the perpetrator yelled “Allahu Akbar” during both attacks. I am relieved that both victims are in stable condition.

The NYPD responded immediately and arrested Raul Morales in connection with both assaults—and I am grateful to the officers for their swift response.

The NYPD’s initial investigation suggests that mental health may have been a factor. They are also evaluating these stabbings as potential hate crimes.

These hateful and despicable attacks have no place in our city.

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

What a hero!

[King David @Aaron710David]

They eliminated 22 terrorists and prevented their outpost from being overrun.

This is Captain Yuval Duek, a company commander in an IDF reconnaissance battalion.

On the morning of October 7, 2023, she was at home in one of the kibbutzim near the Gaza border when she quickly realized that a massive terrorist attack was underway. Still wearing her pajamas and armed only with a pistol, she drove toward Kibbutz Sufa.

According to published accounts, she encountered Hamas terrorists riding motorcycles on the way. Steering with her knees, she opened fire, reportedly killing two attackers before taking up a defensive position and attempting to contact her brigade commander. She soon learned that the commander of the Nahal Brigade had been killed earlier that morning.

Captain Duek then linked up with Major Ron Fabian. Together, they established an improvised command post in a nearby moshav and assumed responsibility for coordinating the battalion’s response.

Using only a small map and radio communications, they directed arriving IDF units, coordinated attack helicopter strikes against identified terrorist positions, and organized the airlift of reinforcements to the most critical sectors near the Gaza border.

Amid widespread chaos, casualties, and ongoing fighting, the two officers maintained command and control, preventing Hamas terrorists from overrunning the outpost and the adjacent kibbutz.

According to these accounts, 22 Hamas terrorists were killed during the battle, forcing the attackers to retreat. Captain Duek and Major Fabian later continued fighting as part of the IDF’s operations inside the Gaza Strip.❤️🙏

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

Yasher koach, Angela. Truly.

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

Orthodox Jew stabbed by Muslim on Upper West Side on Tisha B’Av — welcome to Mamdani’s New York.

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

God bless Sen. Sheehy. Watch every word of this speech. Iran has been killing and torturing Americans for 47 years and President Trump is the first to fight back! Compare the words of this hero with those of the moral midget, @TuckerCarlson and his merry band of cowards.

[Ryan Saavedra @RyanSaavedra]

Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) delivers an incredibly powerful speech about Iran.

Watch every second of this.

"Yesterday we saw the president of the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that is very sacred to those of us who served, and that is a dignified return of remains from the war zone.

That process happens beginning in the war zone through Dover to the hometown of our fallen heroes. I participated in many of those ceremonies myself to include carrying friends of mine off the plane.

One of those is on this bracelet. He was cut in half by an Iranian EFP.

This regime that we are fighting does not care about our partisan politics. They don't care who you voted for, who you pray to, or where you live. They want to kill all of us. And they don't just say it, they actually do it, and they've been doing it for forty-seven years.

This is a war of choice. The Democrats are correct. It's a war of choice that was begun by a radical lunatic band of terrorists that took over a beautiful nation 47 years ago, took it over with brutality, force, and savagery. And the second they took it over, they didn't free their people, they didn't unleash the largest oil reserves in the world to build schools and bridges.

They took it over to murder their own people and to spread their disgusting ideology across the world, and that is exactly what they have been doing. They don't just say it and talk about it. You don't have to believe what they say. You can simply watch what they've done.

They have attacked families, women, children, innocent people. They don't just attack them and kill them, they rape them. They skin them alive on camera. They celebrate it. They honor those people who do disgusting things that we would put in jail for the rest of their lives in this country, and they do it for fun, and they pay them money to do it, and they're heroes to that nation.

They've done it to friends of mine. They've done it to families who've been in this chamber. And the fact that we sit here and listen to elected officials of this country defend these lunatics who want us all dead. They want all of you dead. They want all of us dead.

They don't want us to disappear with a snap of a finger. They want us to be raped, burned alive, and cut into pieces. Watch the video from October 7. That's what they want to happen from Maine to San Diego, from Seattle to Miami. They want this country turned into a burning husk of its former self, and you don't have to theorize that.

That's what they do. From the 1983 barracks bombing, where 280 Marines were vaporized in a morning, from USS Cole to the Achille Lauro, to every terrorist attack, from the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas. These are not humanitarian freedom organizations. They are death-dealing cults, and they want all of us to die brutal deaths.

William Buckley was abducted in 1985, an American military officer. He was skinned alive on camera by the Iranians. American prisoners of war who were captured. They were never called prisoners of war because they were captured by lunatic terrorists, so they were not subject to the Geneva Convention. They were captured and murdered, power drills through their brains. This is in Iraq. These are families that have dealt with this, and they've never gotten a single dime.

These families have never gotten restitution, and not a single president has ever stood up to them. Love Donald Trump or hate him, love his policies, hate ICE, love ICE, whatever. There's never been a single president who has stood up to Iran and hit back. For 47 years, our troops and our families have been absorbing attack after attack after attack all over the world.

And their radical ideology does not stop at the Persian Gulf. It doesn't stop at Tel Aviv. They want to do this everywhere. It's a global radical ideology, and we've been fighting it for half a century.

We didn't start this war. We did not, but we will finish it. And forever wars are not popular with anybody these days. Both sides of the love to attack our forever wars. And I can promise you, being someone overseas wearing the uniform, when you're fighting for your country, you don't care what party's in office, but you're fighting to defend your country, and you turn on the news and see your elected officials stabbing you in the back, telling you that you're failing, that you've failed every goal of the war, is what I just heard.

Last time I checked, we've wiped these bastards out. An occasional missile strike and boats in the straits, that's not military strength. Those are the flailings of a failing empire. Those are the flailings of a nation in collapse because they deserve it. So I encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whatever's politically convenient, whatever plays well on Twitter or Facebook, think about the people who are deployed right now, standing on that wall with a loaded weapon, who have volunteered to defend our country and our way of life.

Because they are there defending us in a just war, because we did not start a war with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They started it with us 47 years ago, and their attacks have gone unanswered for half a century. It's time to fix this problem and make sure another generations of Americans does not have to fight this murderous, savage adversary."

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

Yesterday, as I testified before Congress, Democratic members criticized President Trump for not linking Saudi nuclear energy to the Abraham Accords. With no inside information, I said “give this some time to develop.” It only took a day. https://t.co/lHszfi0bMd

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

Thank you, John Spencer, for laying out Israel's contributions to the advancement of our military technology, which protects our military personnel and improves our military advantage.  This is rarely mentioned by the hate-Israel crowd.

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